What is the best epic?

>>9343574

6, 2, 3, 7, 5, 4, 1

t. confused about my own epic loyalties

Beowulf.

>>9343589
Fuck, that should have been listed. I knew I forgot at least one.

3
6
7
4
1
2
5

It's definitive.

>>9343593
Sure, add Beowulf to the end of everyone's list.

>>9343574
The Divine Comedy have the best style.

>>9343574
6, 2, 3, 7, 1, 4, 5

Virgil is a bad poet.

>>9343574
Mahabharata by Ved Vyas...

Does the Qur'an count as an epic? If so, above everything else.

>>9343585
>>9343595
>>9343615
are these ordered from best to worst, or are these ratings for each in the original order?

>>9343626
Best to worst, I'd wager.

>>9343574
1. Iliad
2. Odyssey
3. Gilgamesh
4. DC
5. Aeneid
6. Paradise Lost
7. Metamorphosis

>>9343620
This.

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>>9343574
The Divine Comedy is not really epic. It certainly has some similarities, but since it's written in first person and it lacks an hero figure and war scenes, no one calls it epic. It has been variously defined as a "religious poem", "allegorical poem" or even "didactic poetry".

Other suggestions if you're interested in long-form epic poems / chivalric romance:

- Argonautica by Apollonius Rodius
- Pharsalia by Lucan
- Nibelungenlied
- Chanson de Roland
- Cantar de Mio Cid
- Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna
- Morgante by Luigi Pulci
- Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo
- Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
- Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso
- Os Lusíadas by Luis de Camoes
- Adone by Giambattista Marino

(all of them are very good)

Nibelungenlied is best desu